Populism and Radical Politics Bibliography

Argersinger, Peter H. The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. A collection of nine of Argersinger's previously published essays--two originally published in the Kansas Historical Quarterly--introduced by a new piece, "The Political Limits of Western Populism."

__________ "Non-Partisan and All-Partisan: Rethinking Woman Suffrage and Party Politics in Gilded Age Kansas." Western Historical Quarterly 25 (Spring 1994): 21-44. Focusing on the suffrage campaign of 1894, Goldberg examines the relationship between the women's movement and partisan politics.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. A condensation of Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, which finds most of the origins of Populism in Texas.

Halcoussis, Dennis A. "The Economic Foundation of the United States Populist Movement." Doc. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1992. Quantitative calculations which include "county-level Kansas data from 1882 to 1908." Not held by KSHS.

Holmes, William F., editor. American Populism. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1994. A collection of previously published essays by Populist scholars such as John D. Hicks, Lawrence Goodwyn, Peter H. Argersinger, and Gene Clanton.

Hunt, James L. "Populism, Law, and the Corporation: The 1897 Kansas Supreme Court." Agricultural History 66 (Fall 1992): 28-54. Hunt concludes there is no evidence to indicate that Populists "wanted to undermine the basic legal foundations of a capitalist economy."

__________. "John R. Rogers: The Union Labor Party, Georgism and Agrarian Reform." Journal of the West 16 (January 1977): 10-15. Rogers was editor of Newton's Kansas Commoner and an early leader of the ULP in Kansas before moving to Washington in 1890, where he served two terms as governor.

McMath, Robert C., Jr. American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992. A brief summary that emphasizes the social roots of the movement (Farmers' Alliance) that made it more than a political party.

Miller, Worth Robert. "A Centennial Historiography of American Populism." Kansas History 16 (Spring 1993): 54-69. A general but thorough analysis of the major works and interpretations of this historiographically controversial movement.

Miller, Worth Robert. Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in Oklahoma Territory. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Origins for this movement and many of the people in it came from south-central Kansas.

Ostler, Jeffrey. Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. Using a comparative methodology, Ostler demonstrates that Populism was more than just a "hardship" versus "prosperity" phenomenon.

Ostler, Jeffrey. "The Rhetoric of Conspiracy and the Formation of Kansas Populism." Agricultural History 69 (Winter 1995): 1-27. The prevalence of "conspiracy-mindedness," long a contentious issue in Populist historiography, is Ostler's focus.

Ostler, Jeffrey. "Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa." Western Historical Quarterly 23 (November 1992): 452-74.

Parrish, William E. "The Great Kansas Legislative Imbroglio of 1893." Journal of the West 7 (October 1968): 471-90.

Peffer, William A., edited by Peter H. Argersinger. Populism, Its Rise and Fall. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1991. A memoir, written in 1899 and first published as a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune, by one of the movements primary leaders and U.S. senator from Kansas.

Pollack, Norman. The Populist Response to Industrial America: Midwestern Populist Thought. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1962. The ideas of Frank Doster, Mary Lease, and other Kansans, as well as the Topeka Advocate, contribute to this analysis of the movement.

Rickard, Louise E. "The Impact of Populism on Electoral Patterns in Kansas, 1880-1900: A Quantitative Analysis." Doc., diss., University of Kansas, 1974.

Riddle, Thomas W. The Old Radicalism: John R. Rogers and the Populist Movement in Washington. N.Y.: Garland Publishing, 1991. Doctoral dissertation completed in 1976; Rogers (1838-1901) lived in Harvey County from 1876-1890, before moving to Washington where he became Populist governor in 1897.

Rochester, Anna. The Populist Movement in the United States: The Growth and Decline of the People's Party--A Social and Economic Interpretation. New York: International Publishers, 1943. The author, an American Communist party ideologist, provides a Marxist-Leninist interpretation.